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It’s always interesting viewing a once-shocking film decades after the fact

One of the most interesting independent films of the 00s, a severely uncompromising depiction of despair and desperation in an American suburb

This 1957 East German children’s fantasy, adapted from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, is said to have freaked out many a youngster over the years

Before ELEPHANT and LESSON OF THE EVIL there was PANIC IN HIGH SCHOOL, a 1978 film co-directed by Japan’s Sogo Ishii, who was just 19 years old

A “Spaghetti Eastern,” this darkly comedic noir drama from 1993 was Estonia’s answer to RESERVOIR DOGS

A British made exercise in Eastern-flavored weirdness that’s not a bad movie, but it could definitely have used a more adventurous treatment.

As one of the (very) few viewers who looked forward to STASH prior to its release, I can attest that it had potential

Here we have a true American oddity with a history as nutty as what ended up on screen.

One of the freakier seventies porno features, a particularly odd and striking piece of cinematic dementia.

The alleged masterpiece of Souleymane Cisse, 1987’s YEELEN (BRIGHTNESS) has been called the “greatest African film ever made.”